- The combination of ~24Gb, 140M YELLOW taxi rides and ~ 3Gb, 19M GREEN taxi rides in 2015 prepares us to deal with big data sets.
The longitude, latittude data recorded from each taxi's GPS at the start and the destination of each taxi ride, capturing the geo-spatial distribution of the taxi rides.
The time stamps of the taxi rides capture the New Yorkers' very dynamical commuting activities throughout the years, the months, the weeks and the hours.
The tips, taxi-fares paid for the rides capture the passenger behaviorial information in responding NYC's traffic conditions.